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The Magnificent Goldberg

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Hi folks, I’m back again! Thank goodness! Oh boy!

The explanation is interesting, so I’m giving it. My wife was in touch with one of her more or less long lost cousins a few months ago and became interested in her family tree. There is a mystery in her family. Her grandfather is said, in the family, to have got away with a murder in a town 100 miles away from his home sometime between 1903 and 1906 by leaving wife and two kids and scooting off to America. Hs is also said to have stolen the workers’ wages from his family’s firm. He was in San Francisco when the earthquake happened. He later returned with a new ID and married, bigamously, my wife’s grandmother. But he continued to draw some kind of allowance from his parents’ family, as did his sisters. He confessed on his deathbed that he wasn’t who he said he was; his sisters were sent for and identified him as their brother.

So my wife has been researching all this and spending hours on end looking at census and other records. And she’s turned up another guy, with an almost identical name and the same age as her grandfather, who lived in the town where the murder was done in 1901! So, was it this guy who did the murder, or her grandfather? But if it was the other guy, why scoot, change his name and age etc come back and marry bigamously?

This is all so fascinating to her – well and me, too – that I didn’t have the heart to turf her off the PC. So I suddenly had no significant computer time at all! We eventually decided that we needed a second computer. Two weeks later, and a frustrating saga I won’t bore you with, and we’ve now got everything up and running; two PCs connected to the web at one time! Zapppppp! Mind you, my old one's a lot slower than her new one.

I’ll post the answers to the BFT tomorrow. Tonight, I’ll just read myself back in on what’s been going on.

MG

Hot Ptah Newbie

Hot Ptah

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MG, I had imagined that you were on an extended trip to Senegal. Your explanation is even more interesting though.

It's really good to have you back. It raised an interesting issue for me. I genuinely missed you, much as I would a departed friend in my physical world. We have never met in person, and are continents apart. Such is the nature of our global online world, I guess.

I sent you a private message while you were away about an album I found for you.

Dan Gould Mentor

Dan Gould

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Glad to see you back, MG. I believe I've cleaned up my Stupendous Sale threads such that you won't see what you missed, but suffice to say that when I started the sale, I was certain that you would have snatched them up. :unsure:

JSngry Grand Master

JSngry

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Hi folks, I’m back again! Thank goodness! Oh boy!

The explanation is interesting, so I’m giving it. My wife was in touch with one of her more or less long lost cousins a few months ago and became interested in her family tree. There is a mystery in her family. Her grandfather is said, in the family, to have got away with a murder in a town 100 miles away from his home sometime between 1903 and 1906 by leaving wife and two kids and scooting off to America. Hs is also said to have stolen the workers’ wages from his family’s firm. He was in San Francisco when the earthquake happened. He later returned with a new ID and married, bigamously, my wife’s grandmother. But he continued to draw some kind of allowance from his parents’ family, as did his sisters. He confessed on his deathbed that he wasn’t who he said he was; his sisters were sent for and identified him as their brother.

So my wife has been researching all this and spending hours on end looking at census and other records. And she’s turned up another guy, with an almost identical name and the same age as her grandfather, who lived in the town where the murder was done in 1901! So, was it this guy who did the murder, or her grandfather? But if it was the other guy, why scoot, change his name and age etc come back and marry bigamously?

This is all so fascinating to her – well and me, too – that I didn’t have the heart to turf her off the PC. So I suddenly had no significant computer time at all! We eventually decided that we needed a second computer. Two weeks later, and a frustrating saga I won’t bore you with, and we’ve now got everything up and running; two PCs connected to the web at one time! Zapppppp! Mind you, my old one's a lot slower than her new one.

I’ll post the answers to the BFT tomorrow. Tonight, I’ll just read myself back in on what’s been going on.

MG

Dude, that's just waaaay freakin' nuts!

I'm jealous! :g

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